Jolyon (Jo) Johnson
Orion Observatory Science Advisor
and
International STAR Society
Director of Student Research
Papers authored or coauthored by Jo
Johnson
Double Star Measurements
with a Three Inch
High School Observations of Visual Double Star 3 Pegasi
Measurements of the Visual Double Star STF 2079
Student Group Measurements of Visual Double Stars
Exoplanet Observations Reveal Early Ingress
STAR Conference: Small Telescope
& Astronomical Research
Portable 0.7-Meter CDK Alt-Az Telescope for Research, Astrophotography,
and Visual Observation
Click here
for a listing of Jo's
and other research papers including authors, abstracts, and links to the
full text

Jo and Eric Carlson from University of
Oregon
prepare the 24" telescope at Pine Mountain
Observatory for the nights research |
About Jo Johnson
Jo Johnson is 21 years old and a student at Cuesta College in
San Luis Obispo, California. He is a co-author of four published
science papers in the Journal of Double Star Observations (www.jdso.org),
two articles in Amateur Astronomy and a member of the Fall 2007
Physics Research Seminar at Cuesta College. Jo also wrote and
presented a paper for the 2008 Society for Astronomical Sciences
Symposium. He is co-editing a book with Dr. Russ Genet and Dr.
Vera Wallen called Galileo's Legacy: Small Telescopes and
Astronomical Research.
Jo has also made two mountain top observing runs in 2008. He was
invited by Dr. Brian Mason of the US Naval Observatory to do
speckle interferometry of very close visual double stars on the
4-mater Mayall Telescope at Kitt Peak National Observ-atory in
Arizona. Jo also used the 24" Boller and Chivens telescope
at Pine Mountain Observatory for a week of observing transits of
the exoplanet HD 189733b and double stars.
Jo co-chaired the 2008 Small Telescopes and Astronomical
Research (STAR) Conference (www.STARConference.org), in San Luis
Obispo, June 18-22 and is the Conference Coordinator for
"Galileo's Legacy: A celebration of small tele-scopes and
astronomical research four centuries later" at the Makaha Resort
in Waianae, Oahu, Hawaii, December 31, 2008 - January 5, 2009 (www.GalileosLegacy.org).
Jo is now a research advisor for Fall 2008 Physics Research
Seminar at Cuesta College and is currently researching
transiting exoplanets, visual double stars, and tumbling
asteroids. |

Jo collaborates with Dr. Brian Mason of
Kitt Peak Observatory |